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title: Discord (community loader)
---

>[Discord](https://discord.com/) is a VoIP and instant messaging social platform. Users have the ability to communicate
> with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats or as part of communities called
> "servers". A server is a collection of persistent chat rooms and voice channels which can be accessed via invite links.

## Installation and Setup

<CodeGroup>
```bash pip
pip install pandas
```

```bash uv
uv add pandas
```
</CodeGroup>

Follow these steps to download your `Discord` data:

1. Go to your **User Settings**
2. Then go to **Privacy and Safety**
3. Head over to the **Request all of my Data** and click on **Request Data** button

It might take 30 days for you to receive your data. You'll receive an email at the address which is registered
with Discord. That email will have a download button using which you would be able to download your personal Discord data.


## Document Loader

See a [usage example](/oss/integrations/document_loaders/discord).

**NOTE:** The  `DiscordChatLoader` is not the `ChatLoader` but a `DocumentLoader`.
It is used to load the data from the `Discord` data dump.
For the `ChatLoader` see Chat Loader section below.

```python
from langchain_community.document_loaders import DiscordChatLoader
```

## Chat Loader

See a [usage example](/oss/integrations/chat_loaders/discord).
